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There was a moment when everything seemed to tumble over. the laws of Great Britain are nothing but aflimsy testament to the idle wishes and dreams of mankind. The oneon the right had an unfamiliar look to Lascelles, as if he had never seen itbefore. To these very reasonable arguments Flora made no reply.

And then, as if she felt themeeting were now concluded, Come, she said. He understood that he had not been driven out to sea, as he hadsupposed, but even then it did not occur to him that the current was in anyway unnatural. A lady and gentlemanwalking along together suddenly sprouted twigs in every direction andbecame an elder-bush, a dog became a shaggy clump of dry bracken. His notes already filled two shelves of the little book-linedroom on the second floor.